Post date: Aug 2, 2010 4:44:32 PM
Attendees:
Manjit, Jyotirmoy, Amitav, Rajenda, Maitreyee, Ankur, Pallav
Minutes:
Manjit :
See 3 issues/points while moving to Unicode:
1. Accuracy of content in terms of spelling and grammer: Says professional contents from newspapers are good in that way
2. Since Assamese and Bengali shares the same Unicode characterset, how does Google know whether a site is Assamese or Bengali.
-- Rajen da asked how does European or for that matter Hindi & Marathi contents work.
-- Pallav pointed to the lang=as in html header would help that
(Followup: just checked out the following links to explain further:
About the lang directive: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html
ISO codes of the languages: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_language_codes.asp
)
3. How to connect with other contact group ...Like IIT regional Development Cell.
Jyotirmoy:
JEC Alumni, worked on localization support & Unicode as part of Masters projects.
Has experience in rule based grammer for rendering fonts. Character : the font and character is different : The way it is stored and the way it is displayed. The translation between Font and characters.
Maitreyee:
From Jorhat. Had set up Xophura in '99, wants to renew working on this front again. Concentrating on Bookbox, will work with Rajen da on Nisukoni Geets.
Ankur:
Kicked off communications with Bookbox.
Rajen da:
Had worked on a Assamese speaking learning tool that won't need people to learn the script, need technical help in finishing that (Pallav to check out)
Amitav's trip:
Rajen da will introduce to Paresh Malakar (Anwesha), Nabo Thakuria(Guwahati Press Club) Uttpal Hazorika : bani Mandir
There should be some handouts about the initiative
Also, we need to give our contacts for followups and for helping on any technical queries. (Ankur, Amitav, Majit, Pallav's email detail to be handed out?)